On "Josh" and "Seth"

I will admit that I first read  this reference to TV writers as "white dudes with names like Josh or Seth" as a bit Jews-control-...

"On paper" UPDATED

Sometimes we all make assumptions. For instance, I'd assume an American Jewish woman of a certain generation would be familiar with what...

Today in schnozzery

Via Refinery29 , a Guardian story on how Iran has the highest per-capita rate of nose jobs. Interest in international primping trends is ma...

Requisite Jewish Christmas post

If you're Jewish, and do the thing of treating non-celebration-of-Christmas as the major, definitive Jewish holiday, what actually goes ...

The tristate area

Cropped for emphasis. The "are you Jewish" set were way off their game that day, going right past me twice  and asking the questio...

WWPD elsewhere

Want to know where Woody Allen meets fashion-bloggery? Click here .  This is most exciting, both because it's been ages since I've g...

New York City, 2012

-A missing-person sign up in and around Penn Station indicates that the young man "is not wearing a yarmulke." -One Facebook frien...

Two wrongs

My Facebook feed is split at the moment between Gore Vidal appreciations and contrarian take-downs.  A brilliant writer and last of the grea...

WWPD Guides: How to be exceptional

If you're a Jew looking to make a name for yourself in the field of writing about your experiences as a Jew, what you need to do is set ...

Nanny Fine, not a "JAP"

The " JAP " is back. On the show "Girls," one of the characters evidently fits the bill . Emily Shire situates the David...

Atheist cosmopolitans with a keen sense of smell

-Mark Zuckerberg has the audacity not to live according to the religious principles of a rabbi who doesn't know him personally, but who...

For a change, trains, France, food, and Jews

-File under obvious, but I wouldn't recommend NJ Transit on St. Patrick's Day. We got seats, because ( as per usual ) there were emp...

Intermediaries

Soon after reading that article about blacks at Stuyvesant , the dog-walking podcast of the day was an interview with the author of Our Blac...

OK, one more genre: The "Bad" Jew, Redux

It's like Philip Roth, Woody Allen*, that entire generation, that entire outlook, never happened, and it's still provocative - still...

A December to Remember

-Homemade bread. A lovely idea, especially for those of us who live far from supermarkets let alone these mythological establishments called...